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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | W.C. Fields in a publicity still from the Broadway show "Poppy". He is seated in an ornate chair and is wearing a top hat, checkered pants and spats. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the United Artists movie "Patterns," featuring Van Heflin (playing Fred Staples) and Everett Sloane (playing Mr. Ramsey). |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," featuring Gregory Peck (playing Tom Rath). He is smoking a cigarette a... |
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| Description: | Two astronauts cling to the back of a rocket. The image is from the television show Men Into Space. |
| Date: | 07 31 1959 |
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| Description: | William Lundigan, as Colonel Ed McCauley, and Ross Elliott as Dr. George Batton, stand on the lunar landscape set of the television show Men Into Space. Th... |
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| Description: | Four astronauts, including Colonel Ed McCauley, played by William Lundigan, struggle with oxygen tanks. They are on the lunar landscape set of the televisi... |
| Date: | 06 11 1959 |
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| Description: | An actor, dressed as an astronaut, is seen on the lunar landscape set of the television show Men Into Space. He is standing near the leg of a huge s... |
| Date: | 06 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Two actors, dressed as astronauts, are seen on the set of the television show Men Into Space. The two look like they are trying to repair something.... |
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| Description: | Julie Harris, Boris Karloff, Kermit Bloomgarden and his wife Virginia Kaye are standing near a table at the Thespian Theatre Club Award dinner. Harris and ... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin sits at the far end of a long restaurant table at the Waldorf Astoria talking to ten reporters. A waiter serves drinks. |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin talking to nine reporters sitting at the end of a long restaurant table at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Behind them, a waiter is watchi... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin talking to fifteen reporters sitting on upholstered chairs around him in a meeting room at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. A small coffee ... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin talking to eight or more reporters sitting around him in a meeting room at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin listening to a woman reporter during a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria related to the New York premiere of "The Great Dictator." Ab... |
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